git remote — Connecting to a Remote

Sharing Your Work

A remote is another copy of the repository — usually on GitHub, GitLab, or a server. You can have multiple remotes, but the main one is almost always called origin.

git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git
git remote -v            # list remotes with their URLs
git remote rename origin backup
git remote remove backup

Remote URL formats

# HTTPS (password / token)
https://github.com/user/repo.git

# SSH (key-based, no password prompts)
git@github.com:user/repo.git

Bare repositories

A bare repo (git init --bare) has no working directory — it only stores the Git history. This is what GitHub stores on their servers.

Your Task

Two directories have been created: remote.git (a bare repo acting as "GitHub") and local (your working repo). Add remote.git as the remote named origin to the local repo.